NWS Wakefield Integrated Warning Team Meeting

2024 NWS Wakefield Integrated Warning Team Spring Meeting

Wednesday, June 26, 2024

Please join us for the NWS Wakefield Integrated Weather Team (IWT) Spring meeting, to be conducted from Chesapeake, VA, on Wednesday, June 26, 2024 from approximately 9 am to 12 pm.

The meeting will be held at the Chesapeake Public Safety Operation Center (2130 S Military Hwy, Chesapeake, VA).

Registration is required!

Register for our Spring IWT meeting here:

In Person Participant

What is an Integrated Warning Team (IWT)?

An IWT a group of people/entities from many professions with a common goal: Enhancing preparedness and response to high-impact weather events.

An IWT Workshop is a meeting of IWT team members to discuss best practices, challenges, and ways to improve preparedness and response, and specifically to disseminate a unified message during severe/high-impact weather events. Anyone who works to protect people’s lives during weather events can count themselves as part of this Integrated Warning Team.

What is the goal of the Integrated Warning Team Workshop?

Bring officials from NWS, EMAs, and broadcast media together with other partners.
Discover the different goals and responsibilities of team members and the challenges in meeting those goals.
Discuss high-impact events and the warning process (what went right/wrong?)
Determine best practices for future events based on this feedback.

Overall, the goal is to forge a more cohesive and mutually beneficial relationship between team members, which allows for a faster and more collaborative response to high-impact weather events. Public safety is the primary driver, not individual organization's goals.

If you have any questions, please contact us at akq-report @ noaa.gov.